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Marcia Lynn Whicker
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“Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.”
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“Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.”
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“Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.”
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“... typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.”
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“Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.”
Marcia Lynn Whicker, U.S. political scientist, educator, writer
(1950 - 1999)